London-based artist Ryan Gander will present Loose Associations Lecture (Version 1.1), a touring lecture first staged by the artist in 2001 and continuously adapted and added to ever since. Performed...

London-based artist Ryan Gander will present Loose Associations Lecture (Version 1.1), a touring lecture first staged by the artist in 2001 and continuously adapted and added to ever since. Performed as a thoughtful and widely ruminative meditation on cultural phenomena, Gander??™s presentation of video, images, and sound leaps from such disparate subjects as architecture and design to James Bond. Gander weaves a narrative that not only reveals??”or more appropriately, obscures??”his complex working method, but also highlights his ongoing project of expanding the parameters of artistic discourse.

Also, specially commissioned by PERFORMA Radio, a collaborative radio work by
British artist Ryan Gander and New York-based collective Dexter Sinister will be on WFMU. The radio work merges the script of a TV pilot with the form of a radio play. Interspersed with musical elements, 8 voices read from a script for a TV pilot written by the artists (and recently published as the book "Appendix Appendix"). A selection of Gander's earlier sound works are also incorporated within the script to become part of the radio play. Continuing the path of one medium wandering into another -- a TV pilot into a radio play -- radio merges with physical space, and the live broadcast is complemented by a performative presentation with a live audience in real space, filled with old radios all tuned to WFMU.

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